UPDATE!

I’ve gotten some feedback regarding this post and I’ve been challenged as to the accuracy of this fact due to this blog post by the design company. If you read it closely, you’ll find nothing to the contrary. The Firefox logo is a Red Panda.

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Just because ‘firefox’ is another name for the red panda doesn’t mean that Mozilla’s Firefox is a red panda. It’s like saying that a komodo dragon is a dragon when the fact is that it’s just a lizard and not a dragon. The whole ‘firefox is a red panda’ thing is just a coincidence from the red panda’s alternate name, and donating to red pandas at the zoo is just like what everyone else does when it comes to helping zoo animals by support. Many people donate to zoos that have all kinds of animals, but that doesn’t mean that a certain animal is their mascot instead of what themselves or the company they work for designed it to be.

Heck, the artist himself even was also inspired by seeing a Japanese brush painting of a fox while working on the logo design, and Mozilla’s mascots are often elemental animals (i.e. Thunderbird, Firebird, now Firefox). I have nothing against red pandas, but the truth is the truth, and there’s nothing we can do to deny it, and you want to know what the truth really is?

If you want to be sure about this fact, only one solution : just check THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE OF FIREFOX, and go to the Firefox Branding page. Here you’ll see that they speak about the logo. Threy speak about the fur of the animal, and here it what they say :

“The FOX fur is now a softer gradient orange and has much less detail (he also has a proper shoulder).”

It’s a fox.

Btw, The first logo of the compagny was a Phenix . They did the link with the fox, and the fire , and here came “Firefox”.
Also, the tail and the snout of a red panda has nothing in common with the tail and snout we see on the logo : The tail of a red panda has red circle circles and his snout is totally white BUT the tail of a fox is large and fluffly, and his snout is orange AND WHITE below, exactly like the logo.

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